"4. In symbolic language --- the
Daughter: in the Cycle of Life (Birth, Life, Death, Resurrection)...
...the Virgin of the World, Venus, Aphrodite: ---
by whatsoever of a myriad names we call Her, still the same in Spirit, the
same in Number and in form! And this number is herein formulated by the
Concentration of the Three in One. 3 + 1 = 4"

"He travelled widely and from his travels in North Africa came his
understanding that living in alien surroundings can awaken in people an
archetypal memory of a prehistoric past that they appear to have forgotten.
This he refers to as the 'shadow self'."

"Jung (1954/1946, p. 119) said that a return to the Self was not complete
without what he calls "the fourth function," and the reverse is just as true.
What comes out of the Self first is known and passes through what becomes the
fourth function (at birth) of intuition. In this manner, first is last and last
is first.
Intuition is the psychological function that the child uses while in the
womb."

he fourth King Crimson album,
Islands
, represents the return to the whole, the psychological function of Intuition,
the Self or God.

"In the myths, conscious body
sensations are seen as the Serpent Lord Enlil, or the Serpent of Genesis. In
Genesis, conscious sensation is the Serpent, who has as his unconscious and dark
side, the Father God, (Intuition) who has been 'lost' at birth."

"This is the central archetype of wholeness and totality. It does not refer to
the individual self but
to the whole of the personality; ego consciousness, personal and collective
unconscious. The
self appears in dreams, myths and fairytales as king, hero, prophet, saviour;
it appears as the
magick circle, the square and the cross; it is the total union of opposites, it
is a united duality as
Tao and yang and ying, it appears as the mandala, it appears as the imago dei
(the image of
God) and is equated with the totality of self which is universally expressed
and the power of this
creation is within the self. Even if God has been pronounced dead the
psychological God lives
and is equated with supreme power and supreme being; it can be worshipped in
many guises -
machines, computers, material possessions, states, money, idols, icons, man,
woman, child,
animal, even atheism - all substitute and stand in for imago dei. Supernatural
powers are
attributed to whatever carries this image of the self. Whatever we are
committed to in awe, in
blind allegiance, or devoutly in faith is an expression of imago dei.

Imago dei is both God and shadow, good and evil, deity and devil. The
archetypes are always the opposites, unified in the Self into wholeness."

"Jung illustrates the effort of 'immediate' religious experience
by the story of the Swiss mystic and hermit, 'the blessed
brother Nicholas von der Flue'. Brother Nicholas had a vision
of threefoldness', so terrible in its nature that his whole face
was changed and his appearance from then on terrified
people.

The experience of the God-image or archetype of the self is at
once the most vital and the most overwhelming that can
happen to man, and without some anchor he may be swept
away."

"Unspeakable beauty and unimaginable bedlam can be found together in the Trifid
Nebula. Also
known as M20, this photogenic nebula is visible with good binoculars in the
constellation of Sagittarius. The
energetic processes of star formation create not only the colors but the chaos."

One entity with three components, the Trifid Nebula represents the three
functions of Thinking, Feeling and Sensation merged into one: Intuition.

"...intuition is sensation, feeling, and thinking that are unconscious, and
these
three merged functions are the soul complex, which contains consciousness and
unconsciousness in
undifferentiated form. This concept appears to be comparable with the idea of
the Holy Trinity or
any three-in-one symbolism and therefore difficult to grasp in a logical or
rational manner. It
is possible that any "truth" contained in what appears to be irrational can
only be known by
experience."